Corset



C. P. ALLEN.

CORSET.

Patented Jan. 9, 18813.

(Model.)

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CHAUNCEY F. ALLEN, OF VVATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 270,360, dated January 9, 1883.

Application lod December 21, 1881. (Model.)

To all who-m it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHAUNCEY F. ALLEN, ot' Waterbury, New Haven county, Connecticut, have invented certain Improvements in Corsets, otI which the following is the specification.

My invention is a corset in which that portion between the arm and the hip, while sutlciently rigid to support the corset atthis point, also possesses that flexibility which is necessary in order to accommodate itself properly to the movements of the wearer.

M y invention further consists in means whereby the hip portion is rendered elastic, flexible, and adjustable.

In thedrawiugs, Figurelis aside viewshowing acorset with my improvements. Fig. 2 is a section on the line l 2, Fig. 1. Figs, 3, 4, Fig. 6 is a section on the line 3 4., Fig. 5.

My invention relates in the first insta-noe not so much to the construction of the body portion ot the corset, which may be of any suitable or usual form as to the combination therewith of a stit'fcned overlying or underlying section so constructed as to permit the body portion to bend freely, but aiding in supporting the latter and supplementing the stit'eners thereof, so that they will not become broken or crushed by the bending of the body, as heretofore. Thus the section A ot' thc body of the corset, which section is at the side between the arm and the waist, is mostlikely to be broken by the side movements of the wearer. The usual increase in the thickness and number of the bones at this point, while rendering the corset rigid and unyielding, is of little effect, as the heavier bones are more liable to break than those which are lighter. To obviate this I use the ordinary light stiffeners, b, in thissection A,and may advantageously employ those which are even lighter than usual, and supplement such stift'euers by others, ,which are arranged in one or more overlying or underlying sections, B, shorter than the body-section, and secured to the latter at the edges alone, or throughout its width in any suitable manner. In Letters Patent Nos. 230,163 and 234,380, heretofore granted to me, I have shown such sections combined with the body ot' a corset, my present invention dift'erin g from those heretotore patented in the arrangement ofthe stift'- eners or bones n n of the section B, so as to lie parallel to or upon the bones b of the bodysection, so that the shorter bones supplement the longer bones, increasing the stiiuess of the corset between the lines y y, while leaving it more tlexiblc at the hip and under-arm portions, below and above the section B. By this arrangement the stiffness ofthe corset is maintained, while it will yield more readily than the ordinary stit't'eued corsets to the side motions ot' the body, and the two overlying series ot' bones are much less liable to break from bending than a single series ot' bones ot' the same thickness as the combined series.

In Figs. 3 and 5 the bones n at the center and edges ot' the two-partsection B, overlying the long bones in the body portion, as shown, stiften the corset between the lines y y, while permitting greater flexibility above and below.

The sections B may be stiftened by diagonal or inclined -bones or cords, or by grass-cloth padding or otherwise, as may the sections of.

A, so as to uncover the hip, and then connect the sections d d by straps or tongues e e, each attached to the end ot' one ot the sections d,-

and one extending through a slot, i, ot' the other, as in Fig. 1, or one extending above the other, asin Fig. 4, the narrow end ot' the tongue being connected to the opposite section, d, by a. flexible strap or metal spring, s, Fig. 1, or carrying a hook adapted to eyes t, in the section d, so as to permit adjustment to t the corset to the wearer.

I claiml. A corset in which the stiftened body between the arm and hip is overlaid or underlaid bya stiffened section, the stitt'eners in which are shorter than and arranged parallel ,to those of the body portion, substantially as IOO cned body and a stilfened overlying` section arranged between the arm and hip, shorter than the body, and with its bones parallel to those ot' the body portion7 substantially as set forth.

3. A corset havinghetween the arm and the waist two series ot' overlying bones, arranged to form a double thickness of bones between the parts y y, and a single thickness above and 1o below such points, substantially as set forth.

4. A corset cut away at; the hip and provided with tongues e e, extending from opposite edges. and with appliances for connecting,` the ends ot' the tongues adjustably to the sides ofthe corset, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereofl have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GHAUNGEY F. ALLEN.

Vitnesses EHARLns E. Fos'rnn, A. E. T. HANSMANN. 

